VT Police Looking into Possible Link Between Robert Durst and Missing Simsbury Teen

Police are looking into whether the case of Lynne Schulze, a Simsbury college student in Middlebury, VT who went missing in 1971 is in any way connected to Robert Durst, a man who ran a natural food store there at the time, according to various reports, including one on Fox CT television news.

Durst, a real estate heir, was recently arrested by police in Louisiana in connection to a murder in that state, and police elsewhere have been looking at past, unrelated incidents to see if he has any connection to them.

He became famous after a documentary came out which claims he said he’d committed murders. According to the documentary, Durst made the statement while talking to himself while he had a live microphone attached to him and recording.

The last time Schulze, 18 at the time, was seen, according to the Burlington Free Press, was on Dec. 10, 1971, when she was standing at a bus station across the street from the health food store, All Good Things, which Durst owned and operated in the early 1970s. A little earlier, at 12:30 p.m. that day, she was seen outside the store eating dried prunes she’d just bought there.

In the 1990s, Middlebury Police reopened the cold case and looked into a number of leads. “Vermont Police said one of the biggest leads draws a connection between Schulze and Durst,” Fox CT reported.

What “connection” or “links” mean regarding Durst and the missing Simsbury woman have not been explained by police or in the news reports. Middlebury police are working with other police agencies and continue to investigate the case, but said little else, according to the two reports.

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